Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2641aa426fcf524c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.3 KB Created: 2021-09-01 09:36:00 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 5.11.3) First seen: 2021-10-07
MD5: ff192c71f84857e641b73973f80e2f65 SHA-1: 27d18827b4995ff45baf36b65a9c76493c4c1371 SHA-256: 2641aa426fcf524c00932a18136080cbb396d04607b369e02a049fa1eb8f5a9d
156 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF contains numerous external URIs and link farm heuristics, indicating it is designed to redirect users to potentially malicious websites. ClamAV and ML classifiers confirm its malicious nature, flagging it as a phishing trojan. The presence of multiple compromised CMS upload links suggests a tactic to host malicious content on seemingly legitimate but compromised infrastructure.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9990

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Phishing.Trojan-d2568dad23a94d95-d2568dad23a94d95-10044375-0
  • PDF link farm points to compromised-WordPress upload storage medium PDF_COMPROMISED_CMS_UPLOAD_LINK_FARM
    PDF contains multiple clickable links, across many distinct hosts, whose targets are random-slug files parked in the upload directories of vulnerable WordPress form plugins (FormCraft, Super Forms). This is the hallmark of the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains hosted on compromised sites. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • Small PDF is a non-clustered link farm on disposable hosting medium PDF_SEO_DISPOSABLE_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links spread thin across many distinct hosts (no single dominant host), corroborated by a utm_term SEO-redirector link and/or links parked on free/disposable content hosts. This is the 'free document/template' SEO phishing PDF family, which ranks for search queries and routes users into payload/redirect chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern. The PDF itself carries no exploit — the risk is the linked destinations.
  • External URI info PDF_URI
    PDF contains an external URL action
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://chcial.ru/uplcv?utm_term=love+by+chance+2+ep+9 PDF link annotation
    • https://gachbinhduong.com/upload/file/garofirapuvog.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://interface-referencement.com/userfiles/file/sejabofi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://harpethvalleypto.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/d29dfc382a30ac13f9de457fa219ce73/88583114144.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://instalater-macecek.cz/klienti/devel/sneznerolby.cz/ckfinder/userfiles/files/77670387953.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://vernadoc.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/8f424f73455cf19241f4040732db3910/fegagev.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://shmountaineering.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/81t6ufue5hgd05dru1onnn8ks0/tomobitukuzasitar.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://engravestone.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/16075024eb7ea3---18636388219.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.mediagrand.hu/data/editorfile/jevag.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://outsourcedbackoffice.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/950a43b78c718dff15e028a842fc27c0/98111093004.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://optimus.org.au/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1608c7df98efb8---73054082919.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.communityheroesproject.org/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/160d8e2955feba---29100419849.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://insfilings.com/skyzone_classic/upload/files/xoxaku.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://gamaconsultores.cl/upload/file/defoxanasabovejefazu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://baxsporthorses.com/userfiles/file/petewepagaxobivajak.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pck.malopolska.pl/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/a8b277ed1e389ad311f9118b9bbff0e0/32843535240.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.heracles-hotel.eu/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/t2dut5gp3e7vlmk5e0p5tqd31c/kexukibejuvid.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://eko-gospodarstwo.eu/files/file/19895608847.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://alamansyria.com/userfiles/file/xumotumatuzuwizefabi.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bizwd.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1609a7fc4a1c61---wotunegejawipudirodej.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://bunny888.com/ckfinder/userfiles/files/27876054962.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://artanuji.ge/admin/ckeditor/ckfinder/userfiles/files/bodosenusafaset.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://www.isgs.org/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/4799b4e0f27ecd48fb1bf8bd89672570/puruzawujaritudutizezulo.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://encouragingmath.com/wp-content/plugins/super-forms/uploads/php/files/45decc4e2459996c26e5ee65b983869f/fumenoruxidavoju.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://pmdrecycling.com/wp-content/plugins/formcraft/file-upload/server/content/files/1607c2c9dbf196---lodoxigogawowidilipuz.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://catbasailing.com/upload/fck/file/35560717059.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.netIn PDF document text
    • http://dejavu.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/LicenseIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off0000bbb9.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBBB9 15512 bytes
SHA-256: 93bf03f0939dc1f9db17a715518cf721a2b747483eea2f3e1ac059e1d8cba2bf
font_01_sfnt_off0000e34f.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xE34F 16792 bytes
SHA-256: 9d2294e344127da9ddc2b77d68b1576b6b78373885bc9da2859f180a98f2c1e1
font_02_sfnt_off0000fb66.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xFB66 10532 bytes
SHA-256: 54ac2b3952107d45e228117f4f29d672e2c820f2071c6d3099fe17b6c0a5b0c2